depict
de·pict/dɪˈpɪkt/verb
depict is spelled D-E-P-I-C-T, 2 syllables: de·pict. The wrong spelling people search most is despict: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 101 of all searches for the word. Depict is a verb meaning “To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means”.
How many letters and syllables are in depict?
| Letters | 6: D-E-P-I-C-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: de·pict |
| In writing | 2.6 times per million words; the 16,896th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, despict, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell depict?
Depict is spelled D-E-P-I-C-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 101 of the searches for depict in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is depict?
Depict appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,896th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce depict?
- /dɪˈpɪkt/
- [dɪˈpɪkt]
- /dəˈpɪkt/
Depict has 2 syllables, split de·pict in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-depict.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of depict
- depicts present, singular, he/she/it
- depicting participle, present
- depicted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does depict mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
adjective
- 1
obsoleteDepicted.
Early 1400s, John Lydgate, “The Concords of Company” in James Orchard Halliwell (ed.), A Selection from the Minor Poems of Dan John Lydgate, London: The Percy Society, 1840, p. 177, I fond a lyknesse depict upon a wal, Armed in vertues, as
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Depict in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to render a representation of something – see also describe, represent, illustra:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | représenter, décrire |
| German | darstellen, beschreiben, abbilden |
| Portuguese | representar, retratar, descrever |
| Spanish | plasmar |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does depict come from?
From Middle English depicten, from Latin dēpictus, from dēpingō.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).